[Wikipedia-l] Re: Categories considered harmful

Mon Jun 21 04:43:01 UTC 2004

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 08:38:23 +0200, Karl Eichwalder wrote:

> Philip Newton <Philip.Newton at gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 07:22:39 +1000, David Gerard wrote:
> 
> >> This could do with fixing. OTOH, it's becoming conventional for one's edit
> >> summary to say "[[Category:xxx]]" when you add an article to category xxx.
> >> Which of course shows up in your watchlist.
> >
> > But only if the article was on your watchlist anyway.
> 
> I wish all these category changes wouldn't clutter my watch list.  No,
> it is not an option to ignore all edits marked as "minor".

Would it be an option to unwatch the category?

I mean, nobody forces you to watch a category so that you could receive
notice of articles being added to it, if this feature should become
available in the first place.

(Or were you referring to the edits where someone adds a category to an
article you were watching? In that case, yes, I also find it mildly
annoying, though I believe the volume of those will die down once things
settle down somewhat.)

Cheers,
Philip